LibreOffice

Create and edit documents in this office suite

One of the most formidable competitors of Microsoft Office, OpenOffice has for years offered a free alternative to Microsoft's document editors.

However, after Oracle took over OpenOffice, the project's community of programmers decided to stop contributing, and created a new development branch called LibreOffice, which is OpenOffice's natural successor.

All those tools can substitute the main Office tools like Word or Excel.

LibreOffice will appear in most GNU/Linux distributions and aims to become a model of free software in the business and office world.

LibreOffice 5.1 now available

It’s been a while now since that old office IT myth – that is, that any suite different from Microsoft is more complicated and incompatible with your docs – collapsed under its own weight. Nothing could be further from the truth. After a surprise overtake of OpenOffice, LibreOffice has become the best freeware alternative when it comes to having an all-in-one for document management. Its new version 5.1 adds interesting changes and add-ons that refine all these concepts.
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Notes

If you're not sure where to start when installing LibreOffice on Ubuntu, don't worry. Run a terminal window in the DEBS folder of the unzipped file and enter the sudo command dpkg -i *.deb.